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W. MASON. LIMITING AND RETAINING DEVICE FOR OPERATING BARS OI BREEGHLOADERS.

No. 586,856. Patented July 20, 1897;

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UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE,

WILLIAM MASON, OF NEIV HAVEN,

CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE LIMITING AND- RETAINING DEVICE FOROPERATING-BARS OF BREECH-LOADERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 586,856, dated July 20,1897.

Application filed October 5, 1895.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM MASON, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inMagazine-Firearms; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in- Figure 1, a broken View, in side elevation, of an armconstructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a view thereof inlongitudinal section on the line a b of the preceding figure.

Hy invention relates to an improvement in that class of take-downmagazine-firearms which are provided with removable barrels and sliding,supporting, and operating handles located forward of their frames andmovable back and forth in a line parallel with the longitudinal axis ofthe gun-barrel, the 0bj ect being to provide for connecting such ha [1-dles with the barrel, so that they will not get out of place when thesame is detached from the frame of the arm.

With these ends in view my invention con sists in a take-downmagazine-firearm having certain details of construction and combinationsof parts,as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention, as herein shown, I employ a sliding,operating, and supporting handle A, adapted to slide back and forth in aline parallel with the longitudinal axis of the gun-barrel B, which isprovided at its. butt-end with a yoke C and adapted to be removablyconnected in any approved manner with the forward end of the frame D,against which the yoke C abuts. The said handle is constructed with arearwardly-extending action-bar E, having a long slot E formed in itsouter face for the reception of the inner end of a retaining-screwF,mounted in the yoke C, which contains an opening C, through which therear end of the action-bar passes, the extreme rear end of the said barbeing adapted to be coupled with the action mechanism, which is notshown, of the arm. It will be readily understood that the move- SerialNo. 564,713. (No model.)

ment of the bar back and forth is limited by the engagement of the endwalls of its slot E with the retaining-screw. It will also be understoodthat when the barrel and its attached yoke are disconnected from theframe D the handle will be prevented from shucking back and forththrough the medium of the retaining-screw and action-bar, inasmuch asthe disconnection of the barrel from the frame does not involvedisturbing the relation of the retaining-screw with reference to thesaid bar.

The handleA may be arranged to slide back and forth upon a tubularmagazine Gr, combined with the gun-barrel and also embraced by the yokeC, or it may be connected with the gun-barrel in some approved manner orwith the forestook of the arm. I do not therefore limit myself to theexact construction herein shown and described, but hold myself atliberty to make such changes and alterations therein as fairly fallwithin the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described myinven tion, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

In a take-down firearm, the combination with the frame thereof, of agun-barrel, a tubular magazine located below the said gunbarrel,andconnected at its forward end therewith, a band applied to the rear endof the gun-barrel and to the rear end of the tubular magazine, andpermanently connecting them, and formed with a transverse opening; asliding supporting and operating handle located upon the tubularmagazine and movable back and forth in a line parallel with thelongitudinal axis of the gun-barrel, a rearwardly-extending action-barconnected at its forward end with the handle, passing through the saidtransverse opening in the said band, adapted at its rear end to beconnected with the action mechanism of the gun, and having alongitudinal slot formed in its outer face; and a retaining-screw orequivalent part permanently mounted in the band and entering the openingtherein, and projecting into the slot in the action-bar, whereby whenthe gun is taken down and the barrel, magazine, band, handle and bar aredisconnected from the frame of the gun, the said screw or equivalentpart willcoact with the ends of the slot in the bar to prevent the barand hence the In testimony whereof I have signed this handle from undueshucking back and forth specification in the presence of two subscrib onthe magazine, and whereby the sides of ing witnesses.

the slot will coact With the screw or equiva- WILLIAM MASON. 5 lent partto prevent the handle from rotating Witnesses:

on the magazine, substantially as and for the DANIEL H. VEADER,

purpose set forth. WILLIAM S. BALDWIN.

